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PORTLAND — York County Judge of Probate Robert M.A. Nadeau has been ordered suspended  from his duties as a judge for 30 days in a decision handed up just before noon today by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
 As well, Nadeau was censured and reprimanded by the court.
The court ordered the suspension to take effect Oct. 3.
The suspension, reprimand and censure come as a result of a complaint filed in 2014 by the Maine Committee on Judicial Responsibility and Disability, which alleged Nadeau breached judicial canons  in a letter he wrote to an attorney and in his handling of social media.
The court found  Nadeau guilty of violating two canons of the Code of Judicial Conduct following a hearing by Active Retired Justice Robert Clifford — who acted as a hearing justice in the case — and oral arguments heard by the court in November.
The court noted Nadeau was not acting in a immediate judicial capacity  when he engaged in the conduct at issue.
Nadeau could face further action. Findings from a round of complaints filed  by the CJRD in 2015 and heard by Clifford earlier this year were handed up July 15.
In that ruling, Clifford found that Nadeau acted in “anger in disappointment” in 2015, and breached several judicial canons when a request for additional court hours and an increase in salary was denied.
In that case, the CJRD y is asking that Nadeau be suspended to the end of his current judicial term, which expires Dec. 31.
Look for more on this story in Friday’s Journal Tribune.


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